Hawaii governors typically ask for discretionary spending a request that was denied by the Legislature last year for Green’s predecessor, former Gov. David Ige, according to state Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz, chair of the powerful Senate Ways and Means Committee.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has made many costly misjudgments in decades of attempts to settle its ceded-lands dispute with the state, and trustees may have made another by too hastily rejecting a new proposal from House Speaker Scott Saiki.
Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs voted unanimously Thursday to reject a proposal by House Speaker Scott Saiki. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke with OHA Chair Carmen Hulu Lindsey about why.